Spain's hospital IT systems under “massive attack” (in Spanish)

Re:Spain's hospital IT systems under “massive attack” (in Sp... by ch4s3 on Monday March 23, 2020 @12:05PM (#22665313)

For those less linguistically inclined, the article is about a spike in Ransomware attacks on the Spanish health system, and the use of Corona Virus websites and emails to spread similar ransomware to the general public.

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Re:Spain's hospital IT systems under “massive attack” (in Sp... by duxup on Monday March 23, 2020 @12:15PM (#22665420)

I suppose the folks whose 'job' is ransomware feels like healthcare systems will be more likely to pay up if already under stress.

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Re:Spain's hospital IT systems under “massive attack” (in Sp... by ch4s3 on Monday March 23, 2020 @01:27PM (#22666324)

Yeah, I suppose so... but ooof some people. I used to work in HealthCare and the IT side of health systems is so stupidly resistant to automated off site backups that this situation was bound to happen somewhere at the worst possible time.

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